Review: BlipBlox After Dark

The world of modular synthesis is a gearhead’s paradise. During the Covid-19 quarantine, I watched my ex-boyfriend and his friends become obsessed, picking up new and expensive modules with sleek, sexy names (Clouds, Yarns, Maths) and perfectly resistant knobs.

There were rainbows of patch cables strewn throughout our basement. They sat me down and tried to loop me in, explaining where to start and that the end only came when I wanted it to. “How do you record it and save it?! How do you replicate it later?!” I cried. “You don’t, really!" was the answer. It was chaotic. It was beautiful. I still don’t really get it.

But when an ad for the BlipBlox After Dark synthesizer crossed my Instagram feed, I was immediately intrigued. I’d seen the WIRED Review of the BlipBlox MyTracks before, but if MyTracks is a beat-making pad ...